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The Mountain Elves are a clan of Elves that live in the bowels of the [[Dragon Spine Mountains]]. They have been led by Queen [[Morganae]] Sunderstone for ''thousands'' of years, and still are today. |
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==Appearance== |
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Currently led by Queen [[Morganae]] Sunderstone. |
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Mountain Elves tend to be shorter, with a straight nose and tilted or almond-shaped eyes. |
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The Mountain Elves were once a part of the Wind Clan, but according to their stories around 2900 [[BL]] these Elves were invited to feast with the Dwarven Mountain King of the Dragon Spine Mountains. Once there they were all poisoned and the warriors and adults were killed, leaving the children to be enslaved. When one of the original survivors, Morganae, had lived in captivity for 150 years she lead a revolt that killed all the Dwarves in the mountain and made Morganae the Queen of the Mountain Elves. When the Elves tried to leave most found the sunlight of the outside world was intolerable and remained in the mountains. The few that did leave formed the loose association of Elves known as the [[Bone Elves]]. |
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==Timeline== |
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2900 BL - Splinter Clan of the Wind Elves enslaved by Dwarves of the Iron Clan. |
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<br>2750 BL - Morganae and the Mountain Elves kill the Mountian King and his Dwarves |
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The Mountain Elves did not always reside in the dark holds of the Spine Mountains. Originally, they were an offshoot of the Wind Clan, wild and free on the Plains of Elanthia. Innocent they were, and they flourished as they fed on the creatures of the grasslands and lived their quiet lives. But Dwarves, still smarting over the slap on the wrists that the Father's children had dealt them, sought vengeance, and when they found the innocuous clan one day, they did the unspeakable. |
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<br>2620 BL - [[Sidhlot]] attempts to overthrow Morganae and take her thrown, but the plot fails and Sidhlot is imprisoned. |
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<br>2600 BL - Sidhlot is freed by his supporters and forms the [[Bone Elves|Bone Clan]]. |
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Luring them into their mountains with promises of a truce, the Mountain Elves went happily, entranced by the idea of peace at last. But peace they did not find. As their chieftains went to speak to the Dwarven Mountain King, the artisans of the Clan were poisoned where they feasted on breakfast and the warriors slain as they moved through the halls toward the meeting. Only the children remained, and these the Dwarves carried off and threw deep into the dark bowels of the Mountains. The children were raised to accept their lot as servants to the Dwarves. Greedy creatures that they were, the Dwarves believed they had enslaved their age-old enemy. But they discounted the memory of the Elven folk, and especially the memory of a young Elven child by the name of Morganae. |
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<br>2558 BL - Bone Clan unites with Iron Clan in effort to overthrow Morganae |
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<br>1017 BL Queen Morganae and Kiernion arrange for an alliance between the Forest and Mountain Clans by wedding Prince Rivyn to Sorril, Kiernion's daughter, but in 1015 BL the Human Kanton marries Sorril and sparks the [[Elven-Human War]]. |
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Silently seething as a mere servant, she bided her time, growing into beauty and personal power as the Dwarves grew fat and lazy. One day, one hundred and fifty years after the Outrage (as she came to call it), she began her own slow poisoning. She told tales of the great tragedies that had descended on them, and in the eyes of some who could still remember sparked a fire, bright as the sun they had not seen for nearly two centuries. Now that they had grown in numbers, the time had come. At Night's Vigil, she and several others took up their hammers and chisels, and slew the Dwarves who had been their overseers. Taken off guard, the once-slaves took up the weapons of their enslavers and destroyed all within the Mountain -- men, women, and children. The Mountain King Morganae executed personally -- slowly. |
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<br>478 BL - Trade sanctions are placed on Morganae by the [[Empire of the Seven Pointed Star]], as she is ordered to cease her political meddling. |
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<br>390 BL - Trade sanctions against Morganae are lifted. |
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With the Mountain King's crown now beaten into a thin gold circlet, the self-proclaimed Queen of the Mountain Elves turned her eyes toward the world she had been forced to forget so many years ago. But time had changed her, and changed her brethren. Many of the Elves found the sunlight intolerable, to the point where they simply could not venture out into the light without crying out in pain. A few of the more sturdy left, forming the loose collaboration of folk known as the Bone Elves. |
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<br>238 BL - Ferdahl [[Corik]] and Morganae ally to build [[Shard]]. |
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<br>230 BL - Shard is completed. |
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Realizing she could never return to the days of old, realizing she no longer even desired to go back to that way of life, Morganae encouraged her people to learn how to shape the rocks, just as they had once learned to sculpt trees. From the ore of the rich mountains they mined metals and gems. The found beauty in the stalactites of the deep, secretive caves and formed out of quarry and minerals cities and villages of graceful stone. |
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<br>198 BL - The Mountain Elves do not defend Shard with Corik and Shard is subsequently razed by the [[Dragon Priest (cult)|Dragon Priests]]. |
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<br>20 AV - Ferdahl [[Alec]] establishes gondola through Dragon Spine Mountains. The Mountain Elves agree to maintain the gondola. |
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But bitterness at the life they had once led remained embedded in the Elven hearts, and perhaps this is what gnaws at the Mountain Elves, twisting them politically and ethically. Morganae has had numerous assassination attempts on her persons in her life; she has killed two of her own children who aspired to take her throne before she wished to relinquish it. Morganae herself is as cold hearted as the cold mountains she dwells in. She has remained a steady control over the Mountain Elves over the many years of warfare and upheaval, and it is whispered that it was she who poisoned the Empire of the Seven-Pointed Star into chaos. Morganae (and all Mountain Elves, in fact) loves dabbling in politics, so long as she does not lose. |
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<br>250 AV - Queen Morganae's daughter is killed aboard the gondola. The Mountain Elves abandon the gondola, cutting Shard off from the northern world. |
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<br>350 AV - Passage between Shard and Ilithi reopened |
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It was Morganae and the Eloth lord [[Corik]] who built the city of [[Shard]] many years ago; Morganae's design and materials, Corik's magic and lands. Morganae and her folk sometimes venture into the city to sell their wares, though this grows more and more infrequent as the Mountain Elves recede further away from the world they perceive as being against them. |
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Revision as of 07:11, 29 October 2007
The Mountain Elves are a clan of Elves that live in the bowels of the Dragon Spine Mountains. They have been led by Queen Morganae Sunderstone for thousands of years, and still are today.
Appearance
Mountain Elves are commonly pale and thin with dark hair and eyes, although a child of summer season's hair or sky-colored eyes does appear from time to time. Black-hearted as the night, a Mountain Elf's devious mind is not to be trifled with. Eve de'Justus has noted that Mountain Elves tend to be shorter, with a straight nose and tilted or almond-shaped eyes.
Summary of portions of "The Elven Folk" by Matron Selidhn, an Elf
The Mountain Elves were once a part of the Wind Clan, but according to their stories around 2900 BL these Elves were invited to feast with the Dwarven Mountain King of the Dragon Spine Mountains. Once there they were all poisoned and the warriors and adults were killed, leaving the children to be enslaved. When one of the original survivors, Morganae, had lived in captivity for 150 years she lead a revolt that killed all the Dwarves in the mountain and made Morganae the Queen of the Mountain Elves. When the Elves tried to leave most found the sunlight of the outside world was intolerable and remained in the mountains. The few that did leave formed the loose association of Elves known as the Bone Elves.
Timeline
2900 BL - Splinter Clan of the Wind Elves enslaved by Dwarves of the Iron Clan.
2750 BL - Morganae and the Mountain Elves kill the Mountian King and his Dwarves
2620 BL - Sidhlot attempts to overthrow Morganae and take her thrown, but the plot fails and Sidhlot is imprisoned.
2600 BL - Sidhlot is freed by his supporters and forms the Bone Clan.
2558 BL - Bone Clan unites with Iron Clan in effort to overthrow Morganae
1017 BL Queen Morganae and Kiernion arrange for an alliance between the Forest and Mountain Clans by wedding Prince Rivyn to Sorril, Kiernion's daughter, but in 1015 BL the Human Kanton marries Sorril and sparks the Elven-Human War.
478 BL - Trade sanctions are placed on Morganae by the Empire of the Seven Pointed Star, as she is ordered to cease her political meddling.
390 BL - Trade sanctions against Morganae are lifted.
238 BL - Ferdahl Corik and Morganae ally to build Shard.
230 BL - Shard is completed.
198 BL - The Mountain Elves do not defend Shard with Corik and Shard is subsequently razed by the Dragon Priests.
20 AV - Ferdahl Alec establishes gondola through Dragon Spine Mountains. The Mountain Elves agree to maintain the gondola.
250 AV - Queen Morganae's daughter is killed aboard the gondola. The Mountain Elves abandon the gondola, cutting Shard off from the northern world.
350 AV - Passage between Shard and Ilithi reopened